OT Canine cancers

Jay

I lost my Dobie to bone cancer two years ago. He was only 7. He went to the vet every year for shots and was fed dog and people food. He was my best friend. Smarter than a lot of people. I could go on, but you get the idea.

I think that it's simply genetics. Dobies, for example are prone to several diseases and cancers. Other dogs are suseptable to other kinds of problems.

Vets can pinpoint problems now, where in the past it was chalked up to "old age". Canine medicine has come a long ways, just like human medicine.

OK-AL

In my opinion, a lot of these new cancers and diseases for our pets come from just plain modern life. A dog walks through a lot of stuff on the ground now days. If you take your pet with you and they have to walk on asphalt or cement sidewalks and stuff where cars drive and park, then they lick their feet for grooming and consume whatever was on their little feet.

I was visiting with a lady that has a couple parrots and other birds as her pets. Me being a farmer, asked her what sort of seeds are best for the birds diet. She told me just a diet of unprosessed seeds is what kills these birds of liver problems. They need a balanced diet much closer to a humans diet. I'd have never guessed that. I learned a lot that day.

Bob

One theory is that dogs have always died of cancer but the owners did not know it.

Dogs make many more trips to the vet than they did years ago.

If a dog got old,sick,and died well he was old and died.

Know if they get old and sick they go to the vet and the vet says its cancer then they die.

Just my thoughts. Gary

I have owned dogs all my life. They sleep on the porch or the barn..they aint humans and critters dont live in the freakin house! My dog right now is beyond 10...never seen a vet in his life....eats whatever comes his way. Drinks from the pond. He's happy and so am I.

It pisses folks off when a human lowers the status of dogs and cats back down to where they belong...because they have humanized them. I have had dogs get sick, lead cures most maladies. The way people do now is go pay some vet to do it for them..haven't got the stomach for it....and seemingly makes it all proper to use the the term 'put down' instead of saying "I blew Spot's brains out with a .22"..... same end, no difference.

As for the dog food...hehehe, I had a time keeping my kid from eating it when he was 3-4 years old. So, I had a taste of it.....salty/bland/corn chip taste to me. I've seen it made.....mush squirted through an extruder at high pressure, chopped and ran under heat lamps on a conveyer belt and then bagged....pretty neat.

Whats the next doggy disease to exploit....bow-wow emphysema? Dogheimers?!!!!!